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Albert Camus quote: "The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself..."
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. Albert Camus
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Clifford D. Simak quote: "Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If..."
Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep. Clifford D. Simak
So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it. Ernest Hemingway
The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... Its us. Only us. Alan Moore
Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret. Louis Armstrong
The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures. Wendell Berry
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus. Marilyn Monroe
Jane Austen quote: "She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to..."
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation Jane Austen
I have noticed that in books this sort of stalemate never seems to occur; the authors are so anxious to move their stories forward (however wooden they may be, advancing like market carts with squeaking wheels that are never still, though they go only to dusty villages where the charm of the country is lost and the pleasures of the city will never be found) that there are no such misunderstandings, no refusals to negotiate. The assassin who holds a dagger to his victim's neck is eager to... Gene Wolfe
Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him. J. M. Barrie
There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Arthur Miller quote: "Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only..."
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Arthur Miller
Louis L'Amour quote: "To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is..."
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'. Louis L'Amour
Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water. Jorge Luis Borges

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